Befriending Emotions: Joy Retreat (10/25)

• VIDEO: Guided Meditation with Mingyur Rinpoche

Are personal emotions and vibes infectious? - What is Buddhist meditation?

Befriending Emotions: A Special Retreat for Joy of Living Students with Tergar Guides

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"We don't need to look outside of the present moment to find inner peace and contentment; when experienced with awareness, everything becomes a source of joy." — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

At the heart of the Tergar meditation tradition lies the retreat experience, which embodies an immersive, experiential approach to learning.

This Joy of Living retreat offers a unique opportunity to create a dedicated personal practice container, while also connecting you with a global community of meditators.

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?

My bot is training me on how to feel emotions

Gain practical tools to befriend difficult emotions, leading to greater inner peace and compassion for self and others. Participating in these retreats is essential for completing the necessary homework and progressing through the levels of the Joy of Living program. By fully engaging in the retreat experience, one can deepen one's understanding and one's meditation practice in ways that simply can't be achieved through intellectual study alone.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

Silly, robots can't feel (yet).

In this program, participants will:

• learn about the core principles of doing a retreat
• receive live teachings from Tergar Guides on awareness, compassion, and wisdom 
• get familiar with meditation techniques to help recognize innate awareness, love and compassion, and wisdom
• learn how to integrate the teachings in daily life

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM?

• Live teachings with Tergar guides
• Group meditation practice
• Self-guided practice
• Gentle movement practice
• Q&A with Tergar guides

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

• This program is open to everyone. 

Optional Personal Retreat Format:

Can I let my ChatGPT bot sit and feel for me?

Some participants may wish to use this retreat as part of a self-guided personal retreat, with a focus on extended daily meditation. For those aiming to complete six or more hours of sitting practice per day, the guided sessions will form part of this total, and one will add one's own independent sitting practice between, before, or after sessions to meet retreat hour goals. During these self-guided periods, one will be on one's own and responsible for structuring practice time.

• Can I get access to a recording of this event?

Recordings of teaching sessions will be posted within one week after the end of the last session and will be available for two months.

IMPORTANT DETAILS

• Date/Time: October 25-26, 2025. Please note that this retreat will start an hour earlier than usual. Please see full schedule. View local times
• Registration will close one hour before the event. Full refunds will be given for cancellation requests up to one hour in advance of the event.
• Who can attend this event? This program is open to everyone [who has completed the Joy of Living Level 1].
• Translation from English will be offered into Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, and Russian.

• Befriending Emotions: A Special Retreat for Joy of Living Students with Tergar Guides - Tergar Events
• Save the Dates: 2025 Events with Mingyur Rinpoche — Tergar Meditation Community
• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Tergar Meditation Community, Oct. 14, 2025); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Transform the Mind (Yongey Rinpoche)

Transforming an Unwholesome Mind

Alexandra David Neel

(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) May 26, 2025: What if our anger, jealousy, and laziness weren’t enemies to fight — but gateways to deeper awareness?

This newly released clip comes from the Buddhist Psychology Immersion course on Vajrayana Online. It is currently exploring teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Form (the Body), Feeling, Mind, and Phenomena (Mind Objects).

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche will be teaching on this topic June 6-8 (to be re-streamed June 7-9) events.tergar.org/events/deta...

Unmistaken Child

The Immersion course includes 43 guided meditations and 43 daily life practices, and it’s just one of more than 30 courses available on Vajrayana Online. To join the course now, visit vajrayana.tergar.org 

🔗 Joy of Living Meditation Program: Learn meditation under the skillful guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at own pace: joy.tergar.org

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(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) Advice for a younger generation

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🔗 About Tergar Path: tergar.org/programs

• Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tergar.org, May 26, 2025; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Abhidhamma w/ Bhikkhu Bodhi (video)

(Tergar) Back to the Roots: Mapping the Mind through Abhidharma with Bhikkhu Bodhi

Tibetan Yongey Rinpoche (Tergar)

Students of the Dharma, tomorrow (Saturday, May 17th, 2025) instead of Bhikkhu Bodhi's regular class on the AN, the venerable American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk will be giving an online lecture on the Abhidhamma ("Higher Doctrine") through another Buddhist organization, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's Tergar:

• Back to the Roots: Mapping the Mind through Abhidharma with Bhikkhu Bodhi
• RSVP FREE: (Disclosure Project) STUDY: Abhidhamma ("Higher Doctrine") with Bhikkhu Bodhi, Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:00 AM | Meetup

Anthology (Bhikkhu Bodhi)

All regular students are welcome to join this program, which will run from 10:00 am to 11:30 am (ET). Find more details and a registration form here: Tergar Events

Note two options on the registration form: (A) If no translation from English to another language is needed, register to view the lecture through YouTube. (B) If translation into another language is needed, register to view the lecture through Zoom.

With metta, BAUS via Wisdom Quarterly

"Many, fearful of annihilation [extinction] at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst."

- Bhikkhu Bodhi

Details

Ven. Buddhaghosa, the great Buddhist scholar-monk, compiling Theravada Abhidhamma texts

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Manual of Abhidhamma (Bodhi)

Seeking a deeper understanding of your own mind — a map to greater well-being? Join us for a special online webinar with Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, a renowned Buddhist scholar and teacher of Buddhist philosophy, as he unravels the profound wisdom of the Abhidharma.

Often referred to as “Buddhist psychology,” the Abhidhamma [the “Dhamma in Ultimate Terms" or “Higher Doctrine”] offers a detailed map of consciousness, illuminating the intricate workings of our thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.

In this event, Bhikkhu Bodhi will guide us through the “topography” of consciousness and core principles of the Abhidharma, exploring how this ancient system of analysis can provide valuable insights into the causes of suffering and the path to innate well-being.

By systematically exploring the inner landscape of mind, we can clarify which mental states lead to suffering, which cultivate happiness and well-being at present and in the future, and which ultimately lead to full inner freedom (enlightenment, awakening, bodhi).

This is a unique opportunity to learn from a renowned master teacher and deepen your understanding of these essential teachings.

Why attend?

Wow, so my emotions actually make sense.

Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is a respected Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator renowned for his clear and insightful teachings on Abhidharma, the system of Buddhist psychology. Bhikkhu Bodhi's teachings emphasize the importance of understanding the mind by systematically guiding us to recognize confusion and discover the reality that leads to profound self-understanding and lasting well-being.

What will we learn?

But consciousness is too big to understand! - Successful meditators understand it.

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In this program, participants will get an overview of the Abhidharma's teachings and learn the classifications of consciousness how to cultivate beneficial mental states

What is included in this program?

Included in this LIVE teaching by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is a presentation followed by a Q&A session, during which participants may ask what pertinent questions they like.

Cost?

This webinar is free of charge, so no payment is required.

• Register now!
• Vegan Social Brunch on the Patio, Saturday, May 17, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup

Bhikkhu Bodhi

American Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American-born Buddhist monk from New York City. After completing his PhD in philosophy at Claremont in Los Angeles. He then traveled to Theravada Buddhist Sri Lanka, where he received full ordination in 1973, under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera. From 1984 to 2002, he served as editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German Buddhist monk Ven. Nyanaponika Mahathera at the Forest Hermitage. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS.org) in Carmel, New York. More

• Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS.org), Tergar (events.tergar.org); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly